[Mishmash] Bell Telephone Recording Music 1949

[William Smyth]

Fred,

I appreciate this VERY much.

My observations and comments:

By the time this film was made FM broadcast radio, B/W TV as well as LP and 45 RPM records were already market successes.
Notice the Magenecord tape recorders running at 15 in./second speed.  These were the earliest mass-produced portables capable of modern high fidelity performance.  They became broadcast radio standard control room units operating at the 7.5 in./minute speed well into the late 60s or even the 70s.  They're easy to spot with their low profile vertical reel decks.  BTW Magnecord previously built the only known widely produced wire recorders capable of near high fidelity performance. These wire recorders look very much like the tape decks but have very large associated electronics chasses.
I'll bet that each telephone is no longer performance tested by any company these days.

Yep, I remember my folks listening to The Telephone Hour on their big AM/FM/SW Zenith console with one of the first FM pickup Cobramatic record changers.

BTW Bell originally developed the telephone for business applications as did Edison the phonograph and Poulson marketed his Telegraphone wire recorder as an answering machine.  I find all three devices remarkable because they were successful without electronic amplification before the DeForest triode vacuum tube (valve) was perfected.

Bill in SC
 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fred Atkinson 
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  Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 5:33 AM
  Subject: [Mishmash] Bell Telephone Recording Music 1949


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